JOHN MAWURNDJUL Date de naissance : 1952 Communauté : Maningrida Langue : Eastern Kunwinjk Support : pigments naturels sur écorce, sculpture sur bois, eau-forte Thèmes : Common subjects are Ngalyod (Rainbow Serpent), Namarrkon (lightning). Mothers country - Kakodbebuldi; water and sacred objects under water. Yawkyawk. Depicts the Mardayin ceremony and includes the billabong at Milmilngkan which is an important Rainbow Serpent sacred site EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES (SELECTION) 2005 • Rarrk the work of John Mawurndjul, Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland. 2004 • John Mawurndjul - new barks, Annandale Galleries, Sydney. 2002 • Kabarlekidyo to Milmilngkan - John Mawurndjul's Country, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi 1994 • Savode Gallery, Brisbane. 1993 • Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES (SELECTION) 2006 • Oceanic Art, Galerie DAD, Paris, France. 2005 • Rarrk! Flowing on from Crossing Country, Annandale Galleries, Sydney. 2004 • Exhibition of Hollow Logs, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne • Crossing Country - the Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 2003 • Mythological beings from Maningrida, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW Biographie 16/05/06 1 ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS • Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria. 2002 • The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1995 • Stories my Parents Sang, National Maritime Museum, Sydney • The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1994 • Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria • Art of the Rainbow Snake, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 1993/4 • ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, Touring: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf • Hayward Gallery, London • Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark. 1993 • The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1992 • The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin • Crossroads-Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia, National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo. 1991 • Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia. • Canvas and Bark, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. • The Speaking Land and Sea, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney. 1990 • l'ete Australien a' Montpellier, Musee Fabre Gallery, Montpellier, France • Spirit in Land, Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land, National Gallery of Victoria • Keepers of the Secrets, Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth • Painted Ship, Painted Oceans, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney. 1989 • Kunwinjku, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne • Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris • Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra • The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1988 • Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney • Kunwinjku Artists, Darwin Performing Arts Centre Gallery and Beaufort Hotel Convention Centre, Darwin Biographie 16/05/06 2 / 4 ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS • Dreamings, the art of Aboriginal Australia, The Asia Society Galleries, New York. 1986 • The Art of the First Australians, Kobe City Museum, Japan. 1985 • The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1983 • Artists of Arnhem Land, Canberra School of Arts 1982 • Aboriginal Art at the Top, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin COLLECTIONS • Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth • Artbank, Sydney • Djómi Museum, Maningrida • Musee National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris • Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin • Musée du Quai Branly, Paris • Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne • National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney • Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane • South Australian Museum, Adelaide • Sprengel Museum in Hannovre • The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth BIBLIOGRAPHIE (SELECTION) • Aboriginal Arts Management Association, Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 - from Australia (presented by the Aboriginal Arts Committee, Australia Council and Third Eye Centre, Glasgow), exhib. cat., Redfern, New South Wales, 1990 • Caruana, W. (ed.), Windows on the Dreaming, Ellsyd Press, Sydney, 1989 • Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1993 • Chanin, E., (ed.), Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Roseville, NSW, Australia , 1990 • Crossman, S. and Barou, J-P. (eds), L'ete Australien a Montpellier: 100 Chefs d'Oeuvre de la Peinture Australienne, Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France, 1990 • Isaacs, J., Australia's Living Heritage, Arts of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney, 1984 Biographie 16/05/06 3 / 4 ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS • Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, exhib. cat. (conceived and designed by Bernard Luthi in collaboration with Gary Lee), Dumont, Buchverlag, Koln, 1993 • Martin, J-H, Magiciens de la Terre, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1989 • McCulloch, A., & McCulloch, S., The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, St Leonards, New South Wales, 1994 • O'Ferrall, M., Keepers of the Secrets, Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1990 • Perkins, H. and Willsteed, T. (Eds.), Crossing Country - the Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004. • Ryan, J., Spirit in Land, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1990 • Smee, S. « Shows take snapshot of now », in The Australian, 25 November 2005 • Sutton, P. (ed.), Dreamings: the Art of Aboriginal Australia, Viking, Ringwood, Victoria, 1988 • Wallace, D., Desmond, M., Caruana, W., Flash Pictures, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1991 Biographie 16/05/06 4 / 4 .